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Whether you’re hoping to find a bit of a helping hand, or you’d really just like to make sure you win your daily Wordle, we’ve got something here for you. Get yourself in the right frame of mind with our general tips and tricks, move onto our hint for the January 5 (1926) game if…
Fallout: New Vegas was famously released in a bit of a state. While subsequent patches dealt with the worst of the quest-breaking bugs and stability issues, there was another problem with the Nevada Wasteland. A lot of it looked suspiciously empty, and not in a post-apocalyptic way. More of a “we didn’t have time to…
Elden Ring: Nightreign is going to be a very different Soulsborne game. Three-player co-op runs with no PvP, no summons, no invasions, and as Nightreign’s director Junya Ishizaki told IGN Japan in a recent interview, no player messages. “You can still see the ghosts of other players,” Ishizaki said, via Google Translate, “but the ability…
The conspiratorial “dead internet theory“—that most online activity is just a haze of self-perpetuating algorithmic noise—is not true, yet, but it sure seems like some people really want to get us there as quickly as possible. As reported by 404 Media, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has hastily deleted a swathe of experimental AI…
Original Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson has stated on Twitter that his next game will be a Minecraft spiritual successor and that he “basically announced minecraft 2.” Notch had run a Twitter poll asking followers to weigh in on whether he should keep his in-development project’s current direction, or put it on the shelf to…
Make your daily Wordle a silky-smooth breeze with our help. If that looks like a quick trip to today’s answer, then click away and enjoy a record breaking win. If you’re happy to spend some time improving your own puzzle solving, then our tips are ready when you are. And if you just need a…
The Civilization games are full of historical information, but it’s mixed together and cut with fantastical contrivances that make it fun to play—which is how I recently went toe-to-toe with Harriet Tubman as Han Dynasty emperor Niccolò Machiavelli when I played Civilization 7 for this month’s PC Gamer cover feature. The games aren’t history tutors,…
We and our council of games industry luminaries ranked Helldivers 2 highly in our 2023 Most Wanted list, which is a small point of pride. The buzz around Arrowhead’s 2024 co-op shooter wasn’t nothing before it came out, but it was getting a whole lot less mainstream attention before it became PlayStation’s fastest-selling game ever…
First reported by Newsweek, Google Trends has revealed a completely predictable knock-on effect from the US state of Florida’s new ID requirement for accessing internet pornography: Everybody’s trying to get in on the VPN game. Newsweek specifically homed in on the search metrics for “free vpn” via Google Trends, which has spiked over each of…
After thousands of hours spent in combat with orcs, androids, and enemy militants, I’ll admit that it’s gotten harder to find novelty in videogame violence. While Steam overflows with trucks, farms, and city builders for when I’ve grown battle-weary, violence overwhelmingly remains the basic mode of interaction, even in AAA RPGs that tout player freedom….